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  <read_at>Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now and then, we must leave the literature of our day and delve deeper--in time and in literary style. Joseph Conrad has survived time as a classic, because his work is of classic quality. I submerged into Victory as into cool, deep water, to emerge refreshed and moved by the literary experience. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41934855">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Nostromo, the pacing of this is slowish in the first half and picks up in the second half.  Unlike Nostromo there is much less back-story in this novel.  While the father of the main character is discussed and is important although dead, most of the rest of the characters have a history only wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66569647">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the end, I liked this novel.  Conrad can be so difficult to penetrate that joy is lost in the strain of comprehension, but this novel is far less dense than many of his earlier works.  I can see why this was a commercial success as well as a critical one.  I am using Victory for the second chapte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49035625">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has, as usual for Conrad, a very interesting plot, with fairly interesting characters, with a good deal of strange racist dialect involved in describing them.  The Chinese cook, through a large part of the novel, gets described as &quot;the chink&quot; and repeatedly has his &quot;slanted ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69521124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38933289">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 07:34:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in the pacific, a tale of the son of a philosopher (Schopenhauer-ish) who has absorbed enough of his father's views that he is no longer attached to the world, and so lives alone on an island. There are some great passages in this book, including recollections of the father, and also the parts i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38933289">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[He had listened. Then, after a silence, he had asked--for he was really young then:<br/><br/>&quot;Is there no guidance?&quot;<br/><br/>His father was in an unexpectedly soft mood on that night, when the moon swam in a cloudless sky over the begrimed shadows of the town.<br/><br/>&quot;You sti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27558577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63295116">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>As far as Conrad novels go, this was... well, pretty standard. The big difference is that it's not narrated by 'Marlowe,' so the prose is a little more readable. It's pretty pessimistic, of course. If you're into memorable characters, Lena/Alma's right up there. And I suppose Heyst is meant to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63295116">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed May 20 19:22:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in a time when you could disappear from the world by hanging out on the right Pacific island, Conrad's novel is most interesting as a record of European/AMerican sensibilities of the time and, for writers, a style of effaced third person narrative which is unusually present and involving.  (Most...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56807470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64103102">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is not really worth the time.  While it is written by a well-known author, the story is nowhere near to being his best work.  The positives are limited to a tropical island setting and a story that’s suspenseful at least up to the end.  The negatives include an ending scene is rushed, a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64103102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76302476">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the later Conrad and likely the best. There was an HBO movie made of it with Willem Defoe as Heyst, but it was only o.k.. The first place I went in Warsaw was to Conrad's former residence (as a child) on Novy Swiat.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NowySwiat47.jpg" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NowySwiat47.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NowySw...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5979293">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 13 20:06:15 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 10 05:12:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 10 05:42:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not find an image of the copy of this book that I am reading, which has the grooviest minimalist 1920's cover illustration (by Edward Gorey).  I love the covers of those early paperbacks,and honestly, can not separate the literary contents of the book from the musty brilliance(and aroma)of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5979293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42118343">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you send me to a desert island (read to get &quot;joke&quot;) with a few books, this would be one of them.  I learned that JC's heart is not all dark.]]></body>
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    <review id="963554">
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    <body><![CDATA[I share deeply the hiden fear of Conrad where he was always in doubt if he could express himself in a proper way through another langauge than his motherland’s. That’s terrible.<br/><br/>پیروزی هم برای کنراد موفقیت آورد اما پس از دل تاریکی کنراد ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/963554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://books.kenficara.com/2008/12/victory_joseph_conrad.html" title="http://books.kenficara.com/2008/12/victory_joseph_conrad.html">http://books.kenficara.com/2008/12/victo...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Victory (Wordsworth Collection) by Joseph Conrad (1998)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Victory: An Island Tale (Collected Works of Joseph Conrad) by Joseph Conrad (2000)]]></body>
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    <review id="61827366">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not for people who like &quot;happily ever after&quot; endings, but very good!!! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Conrad's later novels are not recognizably the work of the author of Lord Jim or Nostromo.  He's a much more approachable writer, using short paragraphs and searching for something like quirkiness rather than the depths of depravity or guilt or what have you.  That said, Victory is really enjoyable ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10668669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a love story, rare for conrad, and, not rare--the forces arrayed against it, malignancy of human forces in their decayed forms, implacability of Nature--<br/>an astonishingly beautiful book and one of the very few love stories written without any of the usual tropes--<br/>very few writers are able t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16969257">more...</a>]]></body>
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